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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I think you are mistaken to think that YY focuses on any Chinese at all. YY does not aspire to becoming a destination school for the Chinese-origin DC residents, a home away from home, so to speak. It aspires to catch DC's growing ranks of middle-class parents who want decent schooling for their kids. Currently bilingualism is a fashionable trend in the concept of decent schooling. That this language is Mandarin is irrelevant. It may as well be Portuguese. The underlying frustration you see in YY-focused threads is that Chinese-origin families come to this school with an expectation of finding somewhat of a "home", a special place for the Chinese, and the school was never designed to be that. That's the only reason you see these threads.[/quote] Thank you. That explains a lot. [/quote]
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